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Sitting under the stars in our sukkah RABBI DAVID ETENGOFF

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he laws pertaining to the construction of the succah are many and varied. Our Sages created an entire Talmudic tractate that analyzed every conceivable aspect of the succahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constitutive elements, namely, its walls and schach, its roof-like covering. Central to these discussions are the uncontested notions of the physical placement and environment of the succah: It must be outside, fully exposed to the elements, and ideally have an unblocked view of the sky.

Thus, Rav Yosef Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, states in Orech Chaim 631:3: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The standard manner of placing the schach upon the succah is to do so in such a way as to enable one to see the large stars through it.â&#x20AC;? The Chafetz Chaim, in the Mishnah Berurah, states that the large stars in this statement refer to those that can be seen during the day prior to sunset. In addition, he notes that a number of more recent authorities ruled that even the nighttime stars must be visible through the schach. The question is â&#x20AC;&#x153;why?â&#x20AC;? In other words, what subliminal, and possibly sublime, messages were Chazal trying to teach us by mandating the visibility of the stars through the succahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roof-like covering?

On one level, perhaps, our Sages wanted us to view the stars in order to sensitize us to the wonder and beauty of G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creation. Dovid Hamelech gave voice to this thought in his paean of praise to G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handiwork: â&#x20AC;&#x153;How magniďŹ cent are Your works Hashem, You made all of them in Your supernal wisdom, the entire cosmos is ďŹ lled with Your creations.â&#x20AC;? (Sefer Tehillim 104:24) Thus, when we dwell in our succot, we are reminded at all times of G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glory, power, and majesty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; simply by viewing the stars through the schach.

I believe, however, that there is another reason why Chazal wanted us to view the stars while sitting in our succot. In my view, our Sages were acutely aware of the need to instill G-d-consciousness and awareness in each of us. With-

our Sages wanted us to have when we see the stars in our succot.

Chazal wanted Succot to be a time of spiritual actualization. This idea is physically manifested through the encircling walls of the succah below, coupled with the cosmic symphony of the stars above. In sum, Succot enables us to serve Hashem through joy, and from the depth of our souls. Just like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Succot embodies the greatness that is inherent in our relationship with G-d. Along these lines, my rebbi and mentor, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zatzal, formulated the ideal manner of serving G-d (excerpted from, And From There You Shall Seek, published in Hebrew, 1978, translated by Naomi Goldblum, 2008): The Torah commands us to serve G-d with joy (Ps. 100:2), with longing and yearning, out of enjoyment and happiness, unfettered pleasure and the soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delight. When man does not see G-d and sense His presence at every turn; when he thinks of G-d only out of fear of punishment, with a cool intellect, without ecstasy, joy or enthusiasm; when his actions lack soul, inwardness, and vitality, then his religious life is ďŹ&#x201A;awed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If man is not always aware of G-d, without any interruption whatsoever â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if he does not 5DEEL <RQD LV VWDWLRQHG RXWVLGH *RXUPHW *ODWW LQ &HGDUKXUVW VHOOLQJ OXODYLP DQG walk with G-d in all his ways and paths, if he HVURJLP ZKLFK VKRSSHUV ZHUH FDUHIXOO\ H[DPLQLQJ RQ 0RQGD\ QLJKW +H XUJHG HY does not sense G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s touch on his shoulders and HU\RQH WR DUULYH HDUO\ ² EHIRUH HUHY \RP WRY RQ 6XQGD\ DIWHUQRRQ ZKHQ WLPH ZLOO sweaty face in his hours of distress and loneliEH WLJKW 7KH -HZLVK 6WDU (G :HLQWURE ness, imparting a certain comfort and encourout a sense of G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direct presence and immanence in our agement â&#x20AC;&#x201C; then his service is incomplete. lives, it can be difďŹ cult to feel He is our Yedid Nefesh and May it be G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will, and our desire, that this Succot will direct protector. Therefore, we ask Him in every Friday night be a time when we reconnect to the Almighty as our true teďŹ lah: â&#x20AC;&#x153;And spread over us the succah of Your peace. Blessed Yedid Nefesh. May it be a time when we feel His mystical are You Hashem, Who spreads the succah of peace upon us presence surrounding and protecting us. Moreover, may this and upon all His people Israel and upon Jerusalem.â&#x20AC;? In this year be the year we experience profound awe and joy when prayer, we beseech G-d to reach out to us in an expression of we see the stars of Succot.

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The truth about the Iran lobby BEN COHEN VIEWPOINT

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n the weeks since the Obama administration announced the perilous international nuclear deal with Iran, growing attention has been paid to the network of organizations and foundations that have been actively lobbying to normalize relations between the U.S. and the Islamist regime in Tehran.

Rightly, that network is being referred to as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iran lobby.â&#x20AC;? The welcome and muchneeded scrutiny of its workings and contacts provides a salutary lesson in how to identify enemies who present themselves as friends.

At the head of the pack is the Washington, DC-based National Iranian American Council (NIAC). Led by Trita Parsi, a Swedish-Iranian immigrant, NIAC has artfully worked itself into the center of the Iran policy debate. The organization has close relations with many liberal Democrat legislators and progressive outďŹ ts like J Street, the Jewish-but-anti-Israel advocacy group, as well as minted foundations including the Ploughshares Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, both of which have donated generously to NIACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coffers.

Some of its alumnae, like Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, have even made it into the White Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in her case, as desk ofďŹ cer for Iran.

NIAC presents itself as a moderate, thoughtful organization. It also claims to advocate on behalf of human rights in Iran, but check the page on its website ostensibly devoted to the subject, and you will see the odd press release urging the release of IranianAmericans currently incarcerated by the mullahs interspersed with plenty of propaganda defending the nuclear deal. Executions, torture, repression of religious minorities, systemic anti-Semitism and homophobia are all staples of the Iranian regimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outlook and behaviorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but in NIACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airbrushed world, such matters donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even exist.

Indeed, NIACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s repeated denials that it is formally connected to the Iranian regime sound increasingly hollow. As the investigative journalist Lee Smith reported a few months ago, when writing about NIACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal campaign against Hassan Daioleslam, an emigre Iranian who has doggedly exposed the truth about the organization, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found in 2012 the work of NIAC, which wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;not inconsistent with the idea that he was ďŹ rst and foremost an advocate for the regime.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Last week, The Daily Beast published a further expose on NIAC authored by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alex Shirazi,â&#x20AC;? an Iranian dissident who wrote pseudonymously out of the fear that his family back in Iran might be targeted for reprisals. Shirazi chronicled NIACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evolution within the broader ambitions of the Namazis, a little-known but inďŹ&#x201A;uential Iranian family that ďŹ rst rose to prominence under the Shah and returned to Iranian public life following the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. Among the consultants afďŹ liated with Atieh Behar (AB) Consulting, a company with strong institutional ties to inďŹ&#x201A;uential elements within the regime, was Trita Parsi.

According to Shirazi, â&#x20AC;&#x153;While serving as president of NIAC, Parsi also wrote intelligence brieďŹ ngs as an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;afďŹ liate analyst in Washington, DCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for AB, focusing on such topics as whether or not the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) would revive its anti-Iran campaigning on the eve of the Iraq war, or on efforts by the

Mujahideen-e Khalq (MeK), the militant Iranian opposition group that exposed Natanz in 2002 would get itself delisted as a terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department.â&#x20AC;?

A good insight into NIACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slipperiness was gleaned from an interview with Carl Gershman, the president of the Congressionally-ďŹ nanced National Endowment for Democracy. Expressing regret at his decision to fund NIAC and its Iranian partner Hamyaran, a regime-sanctioned NGO, to the tune of $200,000 between 2002 and 2006, Gershman said that NIAC had misrepresented itself: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t aware when these grants were made that NIAC were presenting themselves as a lobby...We were trying something that might be a way to help people on the inside [of Iran]. But that quickly became unworkable; the grant didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. Then NIAC showed itself as a lobby organization, so we have nothing to do with them anymore.â&#x20AC;?

Better late than never. Now that the truth about NIAC is emerging, one has to ask why anyone who seeks respectability in Washington would have anything to do with Parsi and his cohorts.

NIACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overarching aim is to strengthen the Iranian regime by boosting its ability to trade with America and its allies. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accompanied by lots of airy, disingenuous talk about how economic openness leads to

more accountable government, but there is precious little sign of the regime reforming itself. If anything, the nuclear deal has persuaded the mullahs that they achieve better results by doing the exact opposite!

What is really irksome is NIACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation of its agenda as somehow in accord with the national interests of the U.S. Moreover, NIAC ďŹ&#x201A;aks, like its Research Director Reza Marashi, have even indulged in a bit of good olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jew-baitingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;after New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer came out against the deal, Marashi accused him of putting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interests before Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interests.â&#x20AC;?

Students of anti-Semitism will immediately recognize this deployment of the familiar â&#x20AC;&#x153;dual loyaltyâ&#x20AC;? smear; what makes this example especially rich is that it comes from the stooges of a regime whose slogan is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Death to America!â&#x20AC;? and whose military interventions across the regime have claimed the lives of hundreds of American personnel. NIAC even insults America by claiming that it works for â&#x20AC;&#x153;human rightsâ&#x20AC;? in Iran and â&#x20AC;&#x153;civil rightsâ&#x20AC;? in the U.S., insinuating that this country is on the same moral level as one of the darkest, most repressive regimes in recent history.

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Will Madeline Singas lose “acting” from her title and become the district attorney for the next four years, or will voters put the office in Republican hands for the first time in a decade?

Singas, a Democrat, was elevated to acting D.A. when Kathleen Rice was elected to Congress. Her opposition is Kate Murray, the Hempstead town supervisor since 2003. Normally, this post is up for election with other countywide positions — county executive, comptroller and clerk — but Rice’s departure for Washington reset the clock on district attorney, though the winner will earn a full four-year term.

The Singas campaign has attacked Murray’s qualifications, saying she has not practiced law in more than a decade and has never prosecuted criminal cases.

“Madeline Singas is a lifelong prosecutor with two decades’ experience locking up vio-

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Singas says she wants to continue Rice’s “legacy of aggressive and tough prosecution,” with a focus on public corruption and violent criminals.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency also announced that it has extended by another month the deadline for flood insurance policyholders to submit their Sandy claims for review if they suspect they were underpaid after the storm. The last day to submit claims is now Oct. 15.

For months, local and federal officials called on FEMA to waive millions of dollars in disaster relief funding that the agency had ordered Hurricane Sandy victims to pay back.

FEMA was seeking to recoup $6.79 million from nearly 1,000 local homeowners, claiming that they were mistakenly overpaid, and sent out demand letters late last year to storm victims stating that they had received duplicate or erroneous payments.

“I applaud HUD for making the right decision not to claw back grant funds from Sandy victims,” Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky said in a statement. “Sandy victims have suffered enough and deserve a break. This will provide much-needed relief for so many families who are still struggling.”

South Shore Rep. Kathleen Rice said in July that in her fourth congressional district, FEMA was looking to recoup more than $1.5 million from residents in Long Beach alone, more than $600,000 from residents in Freeport, and more than $555,000 from residents in Oceanside.

“The recovery process is ongoing for so many of us,” said Long Beach City Council President Len Torres. “Honest mistakes should not lead to folks being put in debt to the federal government.”

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he solemnity of the Yamim Nora’im, the High Holidays, now turns to Z’man Simchatei’nu, the season of joy. This joy is reflected in several literary suggestions for the next two weeks.

Rabbi Mordechai Fachler, zt”l, was a distinguished and well loved rabbi who, in a brief career, held positions in England and South Africa. In a compilation of speeches and essays themed to Tishrei entitled, “Conceptions and Perceptions of the High Holidays” (Renana Publishers, 2015), we find a selected compilation of the rabbi’s finest teachings and eloquent drashot assembled by his devoted son, David Fachler.

These essays, each serious in tone, are themed to all of the holidays of this season.

Given the timing of this review, I bring to your attention his essays dealing with Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret. Consider the following sample of his teachings: “The symbolism represented by the sukkah and by the lulav are internal symbolisms which require concentration and contempla-

tion. They are not obvious external signs of joy. For Sukkot also has this internal aspect which is characterized by Isaac and his trait of introspection. Thus, while we continue to enjoy the external aesthetic beauty of the sukkah and the four species, we can also use Sukkot as time to improve our private, beautiful service of G-d, and draw closer to Him.” Beis Hakenesses of North Woodmere recently published the third volume in its “Ohr HaTzafon” series of essays by local scholars under the guidance and leadership of Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz, with essays from Rabbi Chesky Gewirtz, Rabbi Yehuda Taragin, and Rabbi Yossi Schwartz.

This volume is dedicated to the legacy of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, zt”l, who, according to Rabbi Leibowitz, “was not only a Torah giant, influential thinker, and important local voice in Israel, he was a living ideal for his students and all Klal Yisrael globally. His exemplary hasmadah, quest for Emes in Torah, gentle demeanor and wholesome values

made him adored by all who knew him and an icon to those who only heard the legends. For a more complete tribute to the Rav, may I bring to your attention to a 20 page essay by Gavri Butler, a North Woodmere attorney, entitled, “Rav Lichtenstein’s Teshuva Message to Ameri-

Katonti and the niggunim of awe TEHILLA R. GOLDBERG VIEW FROM CENTRAL PARK

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he melodies of the Days of Awe engulf me. Long before arriving to shul for formal prayers, I am preparing myself with the tunes and melodies, singing them to myself. Often I occupy myself with the fruitless exercise of imagining grafting melodies from songs I love onto snippets or sometimes whole prayers from the liturgy. It’s fruitless because I am not leading the prayers; I just enjoy doing it for the sake of it.

Then there are those wordless niggunim, melodies that stir the heart and wash over

you without one word uttered. They often capture an ebb and flow of the prayers, of the human condition, of life itself.

Sometimes the melodies highlight what is achingly sad, yet they also soothe and often reveal an ethereal dimension of prayer.

That first collective and elevating ahh-ahhahh-ahh pre-cadence of the Days of Awe peels something away, and invites you into the intimacy and dialogues of this immersive season.

So many of the melodies that stay with us for a lifetime are deceptively simple melodies; all you need is to hear them once more and they invade the soul.

The past couple of years I have been taken with Yonatan Razel’s “Katonti,” the number one single in Israeli music of 2014.

I keep humming it to myself, especially at

this time of year.

The lyrics are sourced in a Torah text from Genesis 32, when Jacob is preparing to meet his brother Esau, after an interlude of many years, and after parting on painful terms.

Jacob utters the word katonti (I am diminished —unworthy or humbled). He continues: “I am unworthy of all the kindness and its truthful manifestation that You have granted me, that You have shown me.

When I left home, I crossed the Jordan with only my staff, and now I have become two camps. Rescue me.”

Musically, Razel brings to life these words and the emotions behind them in a devastatingly beautiful way. It captures the epic of life’s journey, of resilience in the face of the fragility of life.

can Jews.” This learned work will go down, in time, as a classic definition of the Rav’s legacy.

Also to be found are two essays themed to Sukkot, “The Sukkah as a Remembrance of the Ananei Ha-Kavod,” by Elisha Graff, and “The Sukkah of R’ Akiva,” by Andrew Zimmerman, both great and timely reading for this time of year.

Rav Gideon Weitzman, in his work, “Essays on the Haftarot,” penned a short and heartfelt take on the rather unique haftarah for the Shabbat of chol hamo’ed Sukkot dealing with the war of Gog and Magog, and of the theological as well as practical implications of this chapter from the Prophet Yechezkel.

Given world events today, the saga of Gog and Magog deserves more than just a passing glance by our rabbis and teachers. There is a message here that warrants more analysis and rational interpretation.

And, lastly, on a lighter note, we have volume two, “A World of Wisdom” (Gefen Publishing House, 2015), a collection of humorous takes by Rabbi Yehoshua Kurland of Far Rockaway, the famed author of “Tefillah Tips” and a longtime talmid of Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld, of blessed memory. This work would make for some timely reading during breaks between hakafos during Simchat Torah.

Read, and truly have a chag samei’ach.

Yet I wonder why, of all times, I keep thinking of this song now.

Jacob refers to his two camps, to the large family he has come to build.

Poised at Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur, we are at a divide. One of Jacob’s camps is stretched behind us and an empty camp is unfolded before us, the unknown of what is yet to come.

In a sense, at this time, we experience Jacob’s sentiment of katonti, of feeling at once diminished, unworthy and humbled. Trying to internalize gratitude for what we’ve been given thus far, while at the same time hovering between two camps: the known and the unknown.

This epic song is more than just a gorgeous melody to put to an important Days of Awe poem or piece of liturgy. It is in and of itself the essence of the prayer in our hearts and on our lips at this time.

“Katonti, I am diminished by all of the kindnesses and all of the truths…

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With a little help from my friends JUDY JOSZEF WHO’S IN THE KITCHEN

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ootball season couldn’t get here fast enough. My baseball team, the Braves, are neck and neck with the Phillies for the worst record in the major leagues, but my Miami Dolphins are said to have a fighting chance this year — first game was a win. But the second game, on Sunday, was not pretty; we lost to the Jaguars, the NFL perennial doormat, not an easy fete to complete.

Earlier in the day my husband Jerry was inconsolable about his Giants, who started the season by losing two of the worst games in franchise history. They have set the league standard for seizing defeat from the jaws of certain victory in circus-like fashion.

The Giants appear to have meticulously and successfully adopted Jerry’s playbook for achieving chaotic time management and dysfunctional organizational skills. You see, Jerry has no concept of time and, let’s just say, he’s not very organized. Take, for instance, building the sukkah.

Over the years, Jerry’s attempts at building his sukkah reflected the wright brother’s early failed attempts at building a plane that could fly.

All the printed decorations and brachot ended up facing outside instead of inside. It also wasn’t built properly, so with the first gust of wind, the canvas was on the ground, and the wooden beams on top. All of his friends in Teaneck knew to come over to his house before sukkot to solidify the contrap-

tions he built.

When we were married, my mother-in-law a”h bought us a beautiful large sukkah that could be put up with the greatest of ease.

Jerry pleaded (begged!) to be excused from putting it together, for fear of being exposed as incapable of building or putting anything together. He would offer my kids increasingly enticing gifts (bribes) to coax them into building the sukkah. They were only too happy to help Jerry out.

Within an hour the sukkah was up. After a few years, the kids were out of the house and it was Jerry’s turn to get off the bench and step up to the plate. Like mighty Casey, Jerry struck out. Last year, with all the poles, beams, canvas and the little specialty hammer that comes with the sukkah, he was set.

Jerry really had no clue. At first glance the frame looked fine, but upon further inspection half the polls were upside down and looked like a figure I remember seeing in geometry. Perhaps this was was a parallelogram sighting, or the invention of the first ever sukkah rhombus.

Like the cavalry, my kids saved the day, when they got home and rebuilt it.

This year when my friend Harry Fink asked if Jerry needed help with the sukkah I didn’t hesitate to accept his offer. Although Jerry said he was on schedule, he was still shlepping the poles and other sukkah paraphernalia from the garage when Harry showed up. Soon the fun began. First off, Harry said there was no way the sukkah would fit on the part of the patio they were set to build on.

Jerry insisted it’s been in that spot since we redid the patio.

“No way it will fit, impossible, 20 feet this way and the end of the sukkah is off the patio

and in the garden, if we move it over, it’s in the pool,” Harry said. Jerry pondered whether the backyard shrunk or the sukkah grew over the winter. This went on for an hour until Jerry remembered that it has to be on a slant so that it misses the garden and the pool.

By the time the frame was figured out our friend Bob Gittleman and his daughter Millie stopped by to return something and they were just in time to help with the canvas.

Great teamwork. Just like when he lived in Teaneck. Jerry’s close friends secured victory from the jaws of certain defeat.

So thanks to all those who came to Jerry’s rescue in the past and especially to my kids Daniel, Jeremy and Jordana on their sukkah tours of duty over the years, which they agreed to do before Jerry decided to reward them.

Wishing you all a wonderful sukkot sharing meals with family and friends. For those of you who still need a main or appetizer this chag, try this one.

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Ingredients: 12 baby eggplants 1 head of garlic, sliced in mandolin 2 sweet yellow onion, minced 2 lbs ground lamb (you can use beef as well) 4 oz. pine nuts 4 tomatoes, chopped into small cubes 2 tsp. allspice salt to taste olive oil 8 oz. parsley, minced Instructions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place eggplants onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, salt and drizzle olive oil onto them, and put into the oven for 30 minutes,

Turing once after 15 minutes.

Remove from oven and slice an opening down the center, making sure not to cut through the bottom.

While the eggplants are baking, sauté the tomatoes in a sauce pan with a little olive oil and salt for a few minutes. Next, cover the sauté pan and simmer on a low flame for about 15-20 minutes till it turns into a sauce.

In a nonstick pan, heat olive oil and sauté garlic for about 3 minutes until golden. Remove the garlic, add a touch more oil to the pan, and sauté the onions for about 5 to 7 minutes, until they begin to turn translucent.

Next, add in the ground meat, salt generously, and cook on medium. Break up all the pieces of meat really well so it fits into the eggplant.

Once the meat is almost cooked, add in the all spice, tomato sauce, pine nuts, and cook for another 5 minutes on medium-low.

Next, Salt and drizzle olive oil into the opening of the eggplants (it is very important here to salt the eggplant, otherwise the taste is a little bland). Place the meat filling in the eggplants, and put in the oven for about 20 minutes Once the eggplant is tender throughout, remove, top with parsley, and serve.

‘Pastry Secrets’ arrive just in time for Sukkos

By Amelia Katzen, JNS.org Babka. Strudel. Stollen. Danish pastry.

Not to mention Gugelhopf and Charlotte. The names set the mouth to watering and conjure up lovingly concocted pastries that feed the body and comfort the soul. If you didn’t have a grandmother who baked these delicacies, you wish that you had.

George Greenstein was never a grandmother, but his life as a baker provided his children and grandchildren with memories infused with the smell of fresh baked bread and rugelach. His daughters, Julia and Elaine, and grandson Isaac were determined to pass on his legacy in the form of a cookbook that George wrote but failed to publish before his death in July 2012.

Isaac Bleicher told JNS.org that, although they knew a manuscript of the book existed, no one in the family had ever seen it. As they cleared out Greenstein’s apartment following his death, the moment when they discovered the book on his computer was stunning.

“Should we publish it?” someone suggested to the suddenly silent room. A year-and-ahalf-long labor of love in bringing the book to publication paid tribute to the lifelong labor of love Greenstein performed through his baking.

Greenstein’s first book, “Secrets of a Jewish Baker,” won the James Beard Book Award, but covered only breads. This new book, “A Jewish Baker’s Pastry Secrets,” is a wonderful companion to the first, enabling the cook to bring a meal to its magnificent conclusion, though some recipes are adaptable as savory side dishes. Particularly intriguing is the “cabbage strudel,” the recipe for which George’s father Louis brought from Gyöngyös, a formerly prominently Jewish town near Budapest (by way of British Palestine, son-in-law Paul Bleicher told JNS.org),

in around 1924.

The book is organized by “master recipes” for many types of dough—including bundt, babka, strudel, gugelhopf, and Portuguese sweet bread, stollen, puff pastry, charlotte (a combination of puff pastry and shortbread), and Danish—which is then used to create many variations on the theme. Puff pastry, for example, is the basis for palmiers, apple turnovers, cream horns, and Napoleons.

Greenstein also provides recipes for various types of filling: almond paste and filling for babka and coffee cake, apple filling for strudel, apricot butter for rugelach, cannoli filling for cannoli, cheese filling for Danish, frangipane for almond pockets, hazelnut filling for gugelhopf, poppy butter and prune lekvar for hamantaschen, walnut filling for strudel, butter streusel for coffee cake, buns, and schnecken.

The concoctions are so numerous and sound so delicious, one wonders how Greenstein was ever able to choose what to bake.

Isaac says the variety—“keeping things interesting”—was the key to the success of his bakery, “The Cheesecake King” in Commack.

And though clearly stemming from Jewish traditions, the desserts have a decidedly European flavor; they cry out to be eaten with a cappuccino or café au lait.

Sprinkled throughout the book are inset boxes helpfully labeled “Baker’s Secret.” These include whether and how long to refrigerate a dough before it rises; a command to allow turnovers to rest for 20 minutes before baking, to reduce shrinkage in the oven; how to handle a bench knife to produce perfect pastry pockets; how to chill pastry cream quickly for immediate use; and, my personal favorite, how to use your fist to quickly and efficiently squeeze filling onto pieces of dough.

In this holiday season, one can only hope for enough time to bake a large sampling of George Greenstein’s desserts—and to have enough guests to finish them off!

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2 1⁄4 teaspoons kosher salt Finely grated zest of 1⁄2 orange 2 tablespoons orange juice 1⁄4 cup (2.5 ounces/71 grams) orange marmalade 1-1⁄2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, preferably freshly ground 1⁄4 cup (2 ounces/56 grams) sour cream (or substitute yogurt) 1 cup (8 ounces/227 grams) unsalted butter, melted and cooled Flour a half-sheet pan.

To make the sponge, in the mixing bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a flat paddle, sprinkle the yeast over the warm water to soften. Add the milk and flour, pulsing the on/off switch until blended, making sure the flour does not fly out of the bowl.

Continue to mix on low speed for 8-10 minutes.

After a few minutes change to a dough hook, if available. The dough should come away from the sides of the bowl. If not, continue for a few minutes at medium speed. Remove the hook or paddle and cover the bowl with a cloth. Let stand until doubled in volume, 20-35 minutes.

To make the mix, beat the sponge down with a few turns of the paddle. Mixing at slow speed, add the eggs and yolks in three additions.

When barely blended (it’s easier if the mixture is still a little wet), add the sugar, milk powder, flour, salt, orange zest and juice, marmalade, vanilla, nutmeg, and sour cream. Mix by pulsing the on/off switch until the dry ingredients are absorbed so that the flour does not fly out of the bowl. Switch to the dough hook and knead for 8-10 minutes at slow speed. Add the butter in several additions, allowing it to become absorbed after each addition. Mix until fully blended. The dough should remain soft, moist, a little sticky, and have a silky appearance.

Transfer the dough into a clean, oiled bowl, turning to coat. Cover with a cloth or plastic wrap and let rest until puffy, about 30 minutes.

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Bank village of Midya, a name that resembles Modiin, the ancient town where the biblical account says the Maccabee family was buried.

Arab villagers pointed one European explorer toward a hilltop dotted with rockhewn graves known by locals as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the graves of the Jews.â&#x20AC;? Archaeologists today say these cannot be the graves of the Maccabees, but Israeli road signs still label them as such and Chanukah ceremonies are held there to honor the ancient rebels.

Another 19th-century explorer was drawn to a nearby Arab tomb, where he announced that he found the remains of Mattathias. Archaeologists say the small domed structure has no connection to the elder Maccabee, but a modern tombstone engraved in Hebrew

marks it as his burial site. Today, candles and Jewish prayer pamphlets are strewn about. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was more wishful thinking than hardcore archaeological evidence,â&#x20AC;? Reem said about the European explorersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; discoveries.

It is a third spot, just a few paces away from the domed structure, that captures Israeli archaeologistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; imaginations. French scholar Charles Clermont-Ganneau ďŹ rst excavated it in the late 1800s and found a mosaic ďŹ&#x201A;oor featuring a Byzantine Christian cross.

The site was then abandoned. This month, Israeli archaeologists and volunteers cleared away rubble and exposed the simple mosaic cross for the ďŹ rst time in more than 100 years.

Reem said the cross is a clue. It appears on the ďŹ&#x201A;oor of a burial niche at the site. It

is the only Byzantine-era site where a cross decorates the ďŹ&#x201A;oor of a burial vault, he said, indicating that it may have marked the spot of an important ďŹ gure. He thinks it is likely that the Byzantines â&#x20AC;&#x201D; early Christians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; identiďŹ ed this site as the Maccabeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tomb. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What other important ďŹ gures would be here?â&#x20AC;? Reem said, standing in the deep pit of the archaeological site.

Oren Tal, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University who was not involved with the dig, said the mosaic cross is not necessarily a signiďŹ cant clue. He said the burial niche may have been converted into a Byzantine chapel, where a cross would have been standard.

But he agreed with Reem about other characteristics that correspond to the biblical account and to an account by ancient historian Josephus Flavius. Both describe the Tomb of the Maccabees as a tall structure that could be seen from the Mediterranean Sea, featuring columns and seven pyramids.

Reem says four thick column bases found at the site may be indications that the structure was once 5 meters (over 15 feet) tall, and large rock slabs Clermont-Ganneau said he found â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which have since gone missing from the site â&#x20AC;&#x201D; could have been the bases of pyramid decorations. Before a forest was planted in the area, it had a direct line of sight to the sea.

Reem said he cannot yet date the site to earlier than the 5th century C.E. He wants to excavate more, to look for an inscription or architectural elements that could associate the structure with the time of the Maccabees.

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By Daniel Estrin BEN SHEMEN FOREST, Israel (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Israeli archaeologists may be one step closer to solving a riddle that has vexed explorers for more than a century: the location of the fabled tomb of the biblical Maccabees.

Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government Antiquities Authority said Monday that an ancient structure it began excavating this month on the side of a highway appears to match ancient descriptions of the tomb of Jewish rebels who wrested control of Judea from Seleucid rule and established a Jewish kingdom in the 2nd century B.C. Scholars in Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quarrelsome archaeological community tend to agree that the site, in an Israeli forest west of Jerusalem and a short walk from the West Bank, is a signiďŹ cant burial site but reserve judgment about its connection to the Maccabees. Now the Antiquities Authority, which sometimes relies on private funding to help ďŹ nance digs, is soliciting donations so it can keep searching for evidence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the smoking gun,â&#x20AC;? said Amit Reem, a government archaeologist who helped lead the dig.

The Maccabees are considered heroes in both Judaism and Christianity. Chanukah commemorates Mattathias and his ďŹ ve sons who revolted against Hellenic rulers who banned Jewish practices, and rededicated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The biblical Books of the Maccabees, which include a tale of Jewish martyrs dying for their faith, are a source of inspiration in some Christian traditions.

In the late 1880s, a succession of European explorers went searching for the tomb. They were drawn to a barren area near the West

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By Lauran Neergaard Most people will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis over their lifetime, a report predicts, calling diagnostic errors a blind spot in modern medicine that sometimes causes devastating consequences.

Getting the right diagnosis, at the right time, is key to good health care. But despite lots of focus on health care quality over the past 15 years, Tuesday’s Institute of Medicine report found diagnostic errors have gotten too little attention and said urgent improvements are needed.

The report is a “serious wake-up call,” said Dr. Victor Dzau of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which oversees the institute.

Possibly the most well-known diagnostic error in recent memory occurred last year when a Liberian man sick with Ebola initially was misdiagnosed in a Dallas emergency room as having sinusitis. Thomas Eric Duncan returned two days

later, sicker, and eventually died.

Diagnosis problems seldom make such dramatic headlines.

The person whose colon cancer diagnosis was delayed by several months, or whose early signs of appendicitis were mistaken for a virus, may not even realize they experienced an error.

Others are fortunate enough to recover despite a misdiagnosis.

In fact, Tuesday’s report found there’s no good count of diagnostic errors, or of how often they lead to serious consequences — it’s not part of standard medical reporting.

But among the evidence that led the committee to conclude most people eventually will experience this problem: By one conservative estimate, 1 in 20 adults who seeks outpatient care each year experiences a diagnostic error, a number that adds up over time. Diagnostic errors make up the leading type of paid malpractice claims and are almost twice as likely as other claims to have resulted in a patient’s death.

“This is an issue that matters to patients, and we’re shining a light on it,” said Dr. John Ball, executive vice president emeritus of the American College of Physicians, who chaired the IOM committee.

Even among the committee’s medical specialists, “many of us had experienced what we would define as a diagnostic error,” he added.

This is not about blaming and punishing doctors, added committee member Dr. Christine Cassel, president of the National Quality Forum.

“We don’t expect the doctor to have all the answers in their brain. Nobody could or should,” Cassel said.

The report says improvement requires better teamwork and communication between health providers — doctors, nurses, radiologists, lab workers — and urges patients to ask, “Could it be something else?” It urges health providers to make patients and their families an active part of the diagnosis process, including giving them timely copies of all records and test results.

It also urges health care organizations to better identify diagnostic errors and nearmisses so that providers can learn from them in a nonpunitive way — and to use technology to help.

Many electronic medical records now have “decision support” tools embedded to remind doctors of possible alternative diagnoses to check.

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By Tom Murphy Employers are leaving a bigger chunk of the bill for care to workers who use their health insurance, and benefits experts see few signs of this trend slowing.

Most companies now offer health coverage that requires employees to pay an annual deductible before insurance kicks in, and the size of that deductible has soared in the past decade, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust.

The average general deductible for workers with single coverage totaled $1,077 this year, compared to only $303 in 2006. That deductible has climbed nearly seven times faster than wages, on average, over the past five years.

“That has an impact on family budgets,” Kaiser CEO Drew Altman said.

The study also found that 46 percent of workers with single coverage have a deductible of $1,000 or more. That’s up from only 10 percent in 2006. Kaiser’s study didn’t measure family coverage deductibles, which can be more complex, but researchers say they those have grown as well.

Altman calls this cost shift a “quiet revolution in health insurance,” obscured in recent years by the health care overhaul’s coverage expansion for people who don’t have coverage through work.

“It’s funny, we used to think of $1,000 as a very high deductible, and now it’s almost commonplace,” he said. “Consumers have much more skin in the game, and that may be fine if you’re healthier and don’t use a lot of health care. That could be a real problem

if you’re chronically ill.”

Employer-sponsored health insurance is the most common form of coverage in the United States, with about 147 million people enrolled. Companies of all sizes offer coverage as a way to keep workers and make sure they stay healthy. But years of rising costs have forced many businesses to scale back their coverage. One of the quickest ways they have to control the growth in premiums, or cost of coverage, without significantly changing the insurance is to raise an employee’s deductible.

Altman said the increase in deductibles has helped restrain premium growth for the past several years. In 2015, premiums rose an average of 4 percent for single and family coverage.

The employer generally pays most of the premium and has the remaining share taken out of the employee’s pay check before taxes.

Kaiser’s research found that the size of a health plan’s deductible can depend on the employer. Small firms had an average of $1,836, while big businesses had $1,105.

Many companies pair that coverage with accounts that let employees set aside money

before taxes for medical expenses.

Commercial painting company Steve Reiff Inc. offers single coverage with a deductible of $5,950. The South Whitley, Indiana, company also helps cover about half the cost of that deductible with contributions to an employee health reimbursement arrangement account, Controller Eric Trump said.

The business switched to a high-deductible plan several years ago to help restrain premium growth. That move helped, but Trump worries about leaving the roughly 30 people on their coverage with the high deductible.

“It’s really hard to like a lot of health insurance options right now,” he said. “It’s still a big expense for people that are making $10 to $15 an hour.”

Paducah, Kentucky, resident Emmett Krall says the annual deductible of $3,500 on his employer-sponsored health insurance makes him think about cost more than he wants to, especially since his 10-year-old son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last year.

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ufacturer sales representative said he has cut down on going out to eat, and he’s watching where he spends his money.

“It causes an anxiety and a stress on my part, because I do get stressed about it, and I don’t want him to know about it,” he said.

College professor Bill Cantor said he’s seen his premium fall to only $95 a month for family coverage from around $300 since he switched to a high-deductible health plan a few years ago. He uses a health savings account to set aside money for expenses, and he likes how the plan has made him more aware of costs.

The 53-year-old said he caught a $200 mistake on a medical bill that he might have missed if insurance had just covered the claim.

“I think it would hold down insurance rates more if people thought about their spending,” said Cantor, who teaches information science and technology at Penn State’s York, Pennsylvania, campus.

Kaiser’s survey focused on benefits for this year and doesn’t predict what will happen in 2016, something many workers will learn about in a couple of months when their employers detail coverage plans for the new year.

Kaiser Vice President Gary Claxton said he doesn’t expect the trend toward higher deductibles to ease much in 2016. He noted that employers tend to make their coverage more generous as the economy improves.

But companies still will be intent on controlling costs to prepare for an overhaul-imposed tax on expensive benefit plans that starts in 2018. —AP

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n 2005, Steve Jobs delivered the commencement address at Stanford University. In it, he described how he had started Apple in a garage at age 20, and after ten years of hard work, built it into a $2-billion company with 4,000 employees.

And then he got fired and lost it all.

He had hired a guy the second year whom he thought would help him build the company, but after a year they started to see things differently and eventually they had a falling out, and the board sided with the new guy and fired Jobs. At the time he was devastated and did not know what to do.

But he still loved what he did, so he decided to start over again. He did not realize it then but as it turned out, it would be the best thing that ever happened to him. The heaviness of being successful had been replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, of starting over, and thus began the most creative period in his life. He started two companies: NEXT and PIXAR, and fell in love with the woman who would become his wife.

Pixar created the first animated feature film (Toy Story) and became the most successful animation studio in the world.

Jobs was pretty sure none of this would have happened if he had not been fired from Apple.

Sometimes life will hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. You will find what you love.

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ith Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur behind us, we enter the festival of Sukkoth, symbolized by the sukkot or booths we sit in for seven days. Unlike Pesach and Shavuot, each of which has clear historical origins, the events which the festival of Sukkoth are meant to commemorate are not at all clear.

Two of the most famous Rabbis in Jewish history debate the nature of these booths we call sukkot. According to the Talmud, Rabbi Eliezer says they represent the Clouds of Glory (the ananei kavod) which miraculously protected the Jews in the desert. Rabbi Akiva, however, believes we are commemorating the actual booths that the Jews dwelled in for 40 years in the desert, which protected them from the elements until they finally entered a permanent home in land of Israel.

What was so special about booths in the desert? If nomadic people are wandering the desert for 40 years they will build huts and booths much like the Bedouin still do today.

Is this what we are celebrating?

Also, given the fact that Rabbi Akiva was a student of Rabbi Eliezer, why does he differ from his rebbe on this? Rabbi Akiva was a principal proponent of the Bar Kochba rebellion (131-135 C.E.) and was captured and tortured to death by the Romans for his role in supporting the revolt; prhaps Rabbi Akiva was saying that we cannot wait for Clouds of Glory if we wish to bring redemption, we need to be willing to build the booths ourselves.

A good friend and neighbor of mine, Dr. Meier Becker, once suggested that if the Jews had not sinned at the golden calf, they would have received the Torah and been on their way to Israel, protected by Clouds of Glory, without needing to build the sukkot. Indeed, the sin of the golden calf occurred on the 17th of Tammuz (40 days after the 7th of Sivan, the festival of Shavuot) and the Jewish people would have been in Israel by the new moon of Av (end of July?) and would never have experienced winter in the desert, so perhaps they would not have needed the booths. But in the aftermath of the golden calf and then the sin of the spies (which occurred on the 9th of Av, in August) the Jews were doomed to wander the desert for 40 years, which necessitated the building of the sukkot.

The Clouds of Glory represented the world as it was meant to be, the ideal. The sukkot represented the world as it was. Rabbi Akiva understood the reality of his day, and realized the Jewish people could not sit around waiting for Clouds of Glory, they needed to be willing to build their own booths.

Think about it: One day, the Jewish people were riding high, freed from 200 years of Egyptian servitude, having experienced the splitting of the sea, and then basked in G-d’s presence at Sinai. And the next day they were destined to wander for 40 years in the desert until their deaths, with a promise that their

Though they would never see their promised land, they believed their children would. So they never gave up.

generation would never see the promised land.

It would have been easy to just lay down and die. But they did not give up, they followed G-d and Moses in the desert for 40 years, and they built their booths, the sukkot.

Because even though they knew they would never see their promised land, they believed their children would, and it was for this dream, the belief that one day their children would come home, that they never gave up. e celebrate the booths in the desert because they symbolize the willingness of a people, with nothing but faith, to start over again, to believe the long journey will one day bring their children home.

Rabbi Akiva must have known how impossible the revolt against the Roman empire was, but he still believed the battle to be worthwhile (much like Mordechai Anilewicz in the Warsaw Ghetto) because it meant the Jews had not, and would never, give up.

And 2,000 years later, the long lost children of those bar Kochba rebels, having never given up, emerged from the temporary booths of their wandering and exile and came home at last.

Sukkot is the festival of faith and joy, and the belief that the long difficult journey will one day prove worthwhile. This true both on a national level and for us as individuals.

As Steve Jobs suggested: The only way to do great work is to love what you do. zIf you have not found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you will know when you find it.

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he song of Ha’azinu is troubling because it seems to describe actions and behaviors of the nation of Israel that we have never seen before in the Torah. The punishments G-d declares He has given and will give seem unequal to the violations committed.

Equally disturbing is how the punishment to Moshe is described in our parsha, because it is not an accurate reflection of what happened in Bamidbar 20. In 32:50, Moshe is told he will die as his brother Aharon had died. In 32:51, the reason is given: “Because you broke faith with Me (m’altem bi) in the midst of the Israelites at the Waters of Dispute at Kadesh in the Tzin Desert, and because you did not sanctify Me (lo kidashtem oti) among the Israelites.”

While it is true that the event described took place, the way it is described in Bamidbar is quite different from how it is presented here.

From Bamidbar 20:12-13: “G-d said to Moses and Aaron, ‘You did not cause there to be enough faith in Me (lo he’emantem) to cause Me to be sanctified (l’hakdisheini) in the presence of the Israelites. Therefore, you shall not bring this assembly to the land that I have given you.’ These are the Waters of Dispute (Mei Meribah) where the Israelites disputed with G-d, and where He was nevertheless sanctified (va’y’kadesh bam).”

Eleven verses later we are told that “‘Aaron will [now die and] be gathered up to his people. He will not come to the land that I am giving the Israelites because you rebelled against My word (asher m’ritem et pi) at the Waters of Dispute.”

When referring to this incident in Bamidbar 27:14, Moshe is also told m’ritem pi and that you failed l’hakdisheini.

Strangely, some of these formulations appear once more in the Torah, in Devarim 9:23, when Moshe recounts the events surrounding the golden calf, and he describes the guilt of the people as “but you rebelled against the word (vatamru et pi) of G-d your Lord, and did not have faith in Him (lo he’emantem lo) or obey Him. To summarize, using the Hebrew verbs describing Moshe’s and Aharon’s guilt: At the incident with the rock — lo he’emantem and l’hakdisheini, though the latter seems to be countered by v’y’kadesh bam.

Aharon’s death — m’ritem et pi.

Moshe’s first direct accusation of non-compliance other than the actual event, when he was told he could not bring the nation into the land — m’ritem pi and l’hakdisheini.

Moshe reminding the people of their sin at Golden Calf — vatamru and lo he’emantem.

Our parsha — m’altem bi and lo kidashtem oti. ntil now Moshe was told he will not bring the people to the land (Bamidbar 20:12) and that he will see the land and then die (Bamidbar 27:13). Both options leave open the possibility that he will enter the land as a private citizen (leader emeritus, perhaps) and that he can die shortly after he sees the land for himself, even from the inside. Only in our parsha, Devarim 32:52, is Moshe finally told point-blank, you will not be going into the land (in Devarim 1:37, Moshe says he was told he will not enter the land, but we never saw G-d actually tell him that).

In Devarim 3:27, Moshe reported that G-d said, “You will not be crossing the Jordan,” but Moshe still had hopes that he while he might not enter the Land alive, he would be buried there. The idea of seeing the land from a distance and being buried outside the land is clarified for Moshe immediately before he dies, in Devarim 34:4.

So what is going on? Why do the reasons for not entering the land differ from explanation to explanation, and from person to person?

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Parsaha Ha’azinu…

Continued from page 19 Aharon and Moshe on the events of the golden calf and the spies, respectively. He explains G-d’s constant reference to the rock incident as a cover for the real reasons, to avoid embarrassment. But the rock episode was very mild in comparison to those other nation-shattering events. He compares this to the mystery surrounding the deaths of Nadav and Avihu. The Torah gives us very sketchy information, while the rabbis heap a slew of accusations upon the lads, indicating the real reason for their deaths was hidden by the Torah, which it was pinned on a minor violation.

Considering that the verse tells us in Bamidbar 20:13 (rock incident) that G-d was nonetheless sanctified, it is hard to imagine that they failed to cause the people to have faith in G-d there. Therefore the lo heemantem must be linked to the other time it appears, Devarim 9:23, referring to the Sin of the Golden Calf, when the people indeed lost their faith in G-d. Interestingly, Moshe reports about Aharon’s death there in 10:6, after recounting how he brought down the second Tablets, even though Aharon’s death occurred 40 years later.

The act of “Me’i’lah,” of which Moshe is accused in our parsha, refers to using something holy for a mundane act. Reading Devarim 1:19-38, it is clear that the holiness of the Land was rejected for mundane reasons by the people. Additionally, they are accused of “vatamru et pi Hashem” (rebelling against G-d) in Devarim 1:26, smack in the middle of the description of the Spies story. And, most obviously, Moshe attaches his non-entry to the land to this incident (1:37) There are certainly eyebrow raising details in the Rock story of Bamidbar 20. But

Truth of Iran lobby…

Continued from page 6 note. Yet we shouldn’t make the same mistake as the enemies of the Jews by assigning any lobby group a mystical power.

NIAC’s agenda resonates because, as Sen. Marco Rubio correctly argued during the last GOP presidential candidate debate, the Obama administration is in retreat from the Middle East, and is thereby ceding vital strategic ground to the Iranians. Backed by the Russians, the Iranians have become adept at keeping their regional allies in positions of power and influence while, under Obama, we do the precise reverse with our own.

Still, the countdown to an America under new leadership has begun. There is probably no better subject than Iran with which to demonstrate a clean break with Obama’s spineless foreign

all told, G-d’s name IS sanctified there – as the verse plainly states – and the rebellion of Moshe and Aharon, the misuse of something holy, and the causing a lack of faith are simply not present. Those accusations refer to these other incidents of the Spies and Golden Calf.

Referring specifically to our Parsha, Abravanel says the following, as he utilizes a creative reading to understand the text: “There are two reasons attached to the deaths of Moshe and Aharon. An impersonal one – Mei Meribah (the Rock incident), and a personal one, their earlier sins [of Golden Calf and Spies]. For both of those they are accused of “Me’i’lah,” (using holy for mundane purposes), not sanctifying, rebelling, etc… Aharon had the opportunity to sanctify G-d’s Name through giving up his life in place of succumbing to making the Golden Calf. This is his special mitzvah, (Vayikra 22:32) to sanctify G-d’s Name and not desecrate it…. Moshe rebelled and caused lack of faith first when he added to questions for what the spies should be looking for, all of which caused the people not to have faith that the Land to which they were going was a good land.”

We now understand why the accusation hurled at Moshe in our parsha does not reflect what happened in Bamidbar 20. The Rock incident was minor and was a cover to shield Moshe and Aharon from more embarrassing episodes in their lives.

Even at the final hour, when there’s nothing to lose from getting everything out on the table, G-d still chooses to go the route of not embarrassing His most beloved Moshe. What a lesson in piety and respect in seeing that a person’s worth and dignity is worth preserving through death!

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policy. And that will mean going back to basics.

First, that the Islamist regime in Iran is the root of the problem, not its cure: as long as it remains in place, there should be no talk of normalization. Second, that there shouldn’t even be an Iran lobby in America, if by “Iran lobby” we mean individuals and groups like NIAC, whose mission is to sell this vicious regime as an attractive partner for Western democracies.

That NIAC has even gotten to this point speaks volumes about how the Obama administration views the world. The administration can say that its policies are about peace and multilateralism and cooperation all it wants; the net result is that the tyrants and gangsters in Moscow, Damascus, and Tehran are its primary beneficiaries. And that is nothing to be proud of.

‘Pastry Secrets’…

Continued from page 10 Turn out the dough onto a floured work surface and punch down so that all of the air is released. Cut the dough into 8 equal pieces, about 8 ounces each. (It is easy to knead several pieces together later, if a larger piece of dough is required.) Roll up each piece, jelly-roll style, into a loaf shape. Place on the floured baking sheet and cover lightly.

Refrigerate for several hours or leave refrigerated overnight in the coldest part of the refrigerator before baking the following morning. Double wrap each piece tightly in plastic.

May be refrigerated for up to 4 days and frozen for up to 8 weeks. Thaw in the refrigerator.

Yield: About 4 pounds of dough, enough for 8 babkas Note: You can substitute unbleached all-pur-

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pose flour for the bread flour, but the babka will not rise as high and will be a bit less tender. In the summer, chill all ingredients (except for the warm water used to soften the yeast). Use butter softened at room temperature instead of melted.

Baker’s Secret: If possible, before refrigerating, place the dough in the freezer for 30 to 45 minutes to quickly retard the initial rise, intensifying flavor and slowing the fermentation process. This makes for a better rise before baking and is especially helpful on warm days.

Alternatively, freeze the entire baking sheet.

When frozen, wrap each piece with a double layer of plastic wrap. It is best to allow the dough to thaw overnight in the refrigerator.

Reprinted with permission from “A Jewish Baker’s Pastry Secrets,” by George Greenstein with Elaine Greenstein, Julia Greenstein, Isaac Bleicher (Ten Speed Press, 2015).

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n Sunday’s talk shows, Donald Trump, the billionaire bloviator of birtherism, refused to says if he believes that President Obama was born in the United States, and Dr. Ben Carson said that the U.S. should not elect a Muslim president.

The question circulating for months has been, “Donald Trump hurting the GOP?” After the past few days the answer has to be an undeniable yes, and throw Ben Carson in the same pot. It’s not that their recent comments are transferring to the rest of the party (that is unknown), but their statements are sucking the air away from Hillary’s continued email scandal and the important issues being discussed by other candidates.

Whether or not Trump should have corrected the questioner who last week said that the president was a Muslim is not the issue here (actually the questioner’s statement, which indicated all U.S. Muslims as bad people, was much worse than what he said about Obama).

Back in July, Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he’s still not convinced President Obama was born in America, but he’s not interested in rehashing the issue.

“I don’t know. I really don’t know,” the Trump told CNN on Thursday. “I don’t know why he wouldn’t release his records.” Trump insisted though he doesn’t want arguments over the president’s origin to define his candidacy.

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Meanwhile, this losing issue has become, for now, the top story and the first question Trump and every other Republican gets asked. But Trump has company in Carson, who said on Meet The Press that the United States should not elect a Muslim president. ”I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” Carson said. “I absolutely would not agree with that.” He also

said that Islam, as a religion, is incompatible with the Constitution.

Even if one is a Carson supporter and believes his ridiculous answer true, why in the world would he say that? There are no Muslims radical or not running for president in 2016, so all his comment did was enable Carson to join Donald Trump at the top of the silly part of the next few news cycles and not in a good way.

Now, instead of talking about the fact that the Democrats pushed through a crappy Iran deal, or how almost every day there is a new revelation about Hillary email scandal, or Carson and Trump’s policies or the policies of their GOP rivals, the mainstream media has an excuse to focus on foolish, irrelevant statements made by two of the leading Republican candidates. inally, a note about the birther nonsense.

The birthers can never explain Barack Obama’s birth announcements that ran in local Hawaiian newspapers soon after he was born. For those to be fake, Obama’s mom would have to have seen into the future, known he was going to run for president, and planted those announcements in 1961.

The only other explanation for Obama to have been born outside the country despite the birth announcements is that someone at the DNC performed one of those Star Trek maneuvers and flew toward the sun to pick up speed, circle the sun and come back in the past (that’s what they did in Star Trek IV with the Klingon Bird-of-Prey).

Since neither Obama’s mother being a seer or the Klingon Bird-of-Prey are rational explanations, I continue to reject the birther movement. I would accept it if Trump builds a working Klingon Ship (and I get a ride and the cloaking device works).

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“Well, you know, I don’t get into it, George,” Trump responded when asked if he believed Obama was born in the United States. “I talk about jobs. I’m talking about the military. I don’t get into it. I mean, he asked that question and I just want to talk about the things because frankly it’s of no longer interest to me. We’re beyond that. And it’s just something I don’t talk about. I want to talk about the military. I want to talk about the vets and how badly they’re treated. I want to talk about jobs. I don’t get into that, George.”

Stephanopoulos tried again, “But the way to get beyond it is to answer yes or no. Do you believe — ?”

Trump answered that it was a possibility but he doesn’t like to get into it or talk about it.

Stephanopoulos gave it a third “So — and even though you’ve raised questions and you’ve investigated it in the past, you’re still —“ Trump continued to punt, “Well, you know, people thought I should have defended. Some people thought I should have defended the president in terms of the question that was asked the other night. And my attitude is, would he have done that for me?

If somebody said that about me. And you know, he’s been — he — he’s very capable of defending himself, believe me.” utting aside for a moment the fact that the birther claims (which were started by the 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign) are nonsense, if Trump doesn’t want his campaign to be defined by the birther issue, he should have just answered yes, Obama was born in the U.S. When the controversy began, Andrew Breitbart said over and over it’s a losing issue. Face

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uring the past few days, Arabs in Jerusalem stoned a Jew to death in the Armon HaNetziv neighborhood, wounded three Israeli policemen in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, and hurled rocks and ďŹ rebombs at policemen on the Temple Mount.

How did the Obama administration respond?

By condemning â&#x20AC;&#x153;all sides.â&#x20AC;?

White House spokesman Josh Earnest put it this way at his daily press brieďŹ ng: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The United States remains deeply concerned by the recent violence and escalating tensions surrounding Haram al-Sharif, or the Temple Mount, as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also known.

The United States, as we routinely do, strongly condemn all acts of violence, particularly in that location thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so sacred to many, many people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is absolutely critical that all sides exercise restraint, refrain from provocative actions and rhetoric, and preserve unchanged the historic status quo on the Haram al-Sharif Temple Mount, both in word and in practice.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;All sides.â&#x20AC;? The Obama White House is incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong, between victim and aggressor. Everyone is equally to blame. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Escalating tensions.â&#x20AC;? No hint as to who might be responsible for those tensions. They simply â&#x20AC;&#x153;escalate,â&#x20AC;? coming out of nowhere, not caused by anyone in particular. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All acts of violence.â&#x20AC;? No mention of Alexander Levlovitz, the Israeli man who was stoned to death while driving home from Rosh Hashanah dinner with friends and family. Citing his name would put a human face on those vague â&#x20AC;&#x153;acts of

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If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing the White House does not want to do, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to draw attention to Jewish victims of Palestinian terrorism. Obama administration policymakers want the public to quickly turn the page, to get on to other issues, not stop and think about someone like Alexander Levlovitz. Mentioning his name might encourage people to pause and consider the implications of what happened to him.

And the implications are serious.

For example, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fact that the Palestinians are still engaging in massive anti-Jewish violence, 22 years after signing the Oslo Accords, in which they pledged to stop engaging in violence.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the fact that the Palestinian Authority (PA) regime, which the Obama admin-

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istration claims is moderate and peace-seeking, actively praises and encourages the violence.

How could the administration continue its policy of pressuring Israel to make concessions if it admitted that the PA does not really want peace?

The most serious implication, of course, is what the violence tells us about the idea of creating a Palestinian state. Every Palestinian rock thrown at a Jew is a reminder that an independent Palestinian state, instead of bringing peace to the region, would be a source of constant violence against Israel.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the Obama White House has to blame â&#x20AC;&#x153;all sides.â&#x20AC;? Because the alternativeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; taking Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is unthinkable to this administration.

Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

Indiana Shoah museum gets new building TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A western Indiana museum founded by a Holocaust survivor has acquired a building in downtown Terre Haute for a possible expansion of the center, which is devoted to understanding the impact of hatred and prejudice.

Kiel Majewski, the executive director of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, said the museum purchased the building as a possible future site of the museum. The building had once been slated for conversion to loft apartments.

He said the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s location near Terre Hauteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arts corridor, three other museums and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main library make it an attractive possible future site for the CANDLES museum in the city about 70 miles west of Indianapolis.

Holocaust survivor Eva Kor founded the CANDLES museum in 1995. CANDLES stands for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Experiments Survivors.

Korâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family was taken by the Nazis from Romania along with other Jewish prisoners in 1944, and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

She and a twin sister survived medical experiments overseen by the brutal Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, but their parents and two older sisters died at Auschwitz.

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N. Woodmere event supports CAHAL CAHAL held an Evening of Inspiration in North Woodmere drew nearly 100 men and women last Sunday to the home of Rina and Jeffrey Ganeles.

CAHALâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Director Shimmie Ehrenreich thanked the attendees and the individuals who worked hard to guarantee the eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. He was especially appreciative of the event committee, which spread the word and invited their friends, and Shira Cohen and Noach Haller of CAHAL who co-

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Following the showing of a video about CAHAL, Jeffrey Ganeles spoke passionately about the program, describing how attending the CAHAL kindergarten class changed his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life.

After attending CAHAL for one year, with the wonderful experience of having Mrs. Melody Harris as his teacher, his son was successfully mainstreamed into ďŹ rst grade, Ganeles said.

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SKA One day of school and off they went!

On Sept. 9 and 10, the ninth grade class of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls went to Camp Kaylie for their freshman retreat.

Cupcake wars, go karts, basketball, volleyball, tennis, bowling and paddling on the beautiful lake were some of the activities on their schedule. Divrei Torahs at lunch were given by Esther Miller and Zoe Poznanski, after which everyone gathered by the water for a group photo (see page 1).

At night, Grades 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 Principal Raizi Chechik shared inspirational words on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Worry, Be Happy.â&#x20AC;? To round out the evening, the girls enjoyed smores around a bonďŹ re and a very competitive game of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Minute to Win It.â&#x20AC;?

Everyone had a wonderful time meeting new friends and spending time with older ones. The Duct Tape Challenge in particular helped the grade come together as a unit, and the ice cream party held before everyone left on Thursday highlighted the great time the students had.

Thanks go to Rabbi Yosef Zakutinsky, director of student programs, and his assistant, Yafa Storch; Ms. Chechik; Deena Kobre, assistant principal; grade level advisers Sheila Liebtag, Esti Engel, Danielle Sudwerts and Leora Balk; Lisa Fogel, social worker; Jordana Bienenfeld, graphic design, G.O. adviser and media coordinator; and SKAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s G.O. members who planned and accompanied the freshmen on this wonderful retreat.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Names Not Numbersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; joins HAFTR, Lawrence students HAFTR HAFTR Middle School students were joined by 30 students from the Lawrence Middle School on Monday to hear about the Names Not Numbers Project.

The project was conceived by Tova Fish Rosenberg, renowned Jewish educator.

Students who participate learn about tolerance, acceptance of diversity, and the celebration of multiculturalism.

HAFTR Middle School Principal Dr. Rochelle Brand opened the program with three lessons â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Be strong in your faith and values, actively do good deeds, and ďŹ ght evil.

Brand reminded the students that â&#x20AC;&#x153;evil occurs when good men do nothingâ&#x20AC;? and so

it is incumbent on each person to learn from the past to create a better future.

Dr. Gary Schall, Lawrence District Superintendent, told the assembly that this may be one of the most important educational opportunities students can have. Lawrence Middle School Principal Willis Perry discussed the impact that this partnership will have on participants as they become leaders of the next generation.

The 2015-16 Names Not Numbers Holocaust Memorial Documentary is scheduled to be shown to the public next June 2, culminating a school year of research, oral history, written biographies, and ďŹ lming and editing, all done by the students.

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